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Smart & Biggar is Canada’s largest and highest ranked intellectual property firm. Our reputation and strength is a measure of the quality of our people, and we are proud to have the broadest and deepest bench for IP in Canada. With over 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents, we offer legal expertise and technological knowledge across a wide range of industries and scientific and engineering disciplines, with leaders in every field.

Services

Today’s fast-paced innovation economy demands a higher level of expertise and attention to detail when it comes to IP. Our highly skilled team of lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents advise clients on a wide variety of strategic business, brand and technology matters leveraging their deep expertise in intellectual property to help them succeed with IP.

Industries

Across all industries, intellectual property is at the heart of innovation and is key to accelerating business value and growth. Developing a clear IP strategy and knowing how to tap and leverage IP to align with business goals can unlock competitive advantages and make the difference between industry leaders and followers.

Insights

At the forefront of IP in Canada, and actively involved as leaders in industry committees and associations, we stay up-to-date and proactively report on the latest developments in intellectual property law in Canada and around the world. Breaking IP news, changes in the law, important new decisions, and information on key IP issues are provided here through our IP publications and resources.

Careers

Many of the world's most commercially important innovators and most prominent brands trust Smart & Biggar to protect and enforce their IP and to provide them with strategic IP counsel. We have developed a reputation as a firm of talented lawyers and patent and trademark agents with integrity, business savvy and tremendous acumen. That’s why we look for the brightest people with combined talent and strengths in law, business, science and technology.

Who we are

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property, and with over 100 lawyers, patent agents and trademark agents in five offices, we are also Canada’s largest firm focused purely on IP and related specialty areas.

Rankings & Recognition

Lexpert recognizes 9 Smart & Biggar lawyers in new Special Edition on Technology

May 13, 2020

Smart & Biggar is pleased to share that nine of our lawyers are listed in the inaugural Lexpert Special Edition on Technology, published today. This industry focused publication features a sub-set of Lexpert-ranked lawyers who have been selected for their expertise and experience as legal advisors to companies in the technology and telecommunications industries, and in the practice areas of computer & IT Law, technology transactions and intellectual property law.

Congratulations to our featured lawyers: Christian Bolduc, Mark Evans, Gunars Gaikis, Steven Garland, François Guay, Philip Lapin, David Schwartz, Theodore Sum and Matthew Zischka.

Smart & Biggar is widely recognized as Canada’s leading firm for intellectual property law, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. We are leaders in intellectual property and technology law and have been serving clients for over a century.

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Rankings & Recognition

Six Smart & Biggar IP litigators featured in Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation 2022

Mark Evans, Steven Garland, François Guay, Sheldon Hamilton, Yoon Kang and Nancy Pei
November 24, 2022
Smart & Biggar is thrilled to share that six of our leading IP litigators have been featured in this year’s Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation 2022.
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Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar leads with six lawyers recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders Global Elite 2023

Mark Evans, Steven Garland, Gunars Gaikis, Philip Lapin, Alice Tseng and Matthew Zischka
November 30, 2022
Smart & Biggar is proud to announce that six of our leading lawyers have been recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders Global Elite 2023 edition for IP – more than any firm in Canada.
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Rankings & Recognition

Smart & Biggar honoured at the annual Women in Business Law Global Awards

Daphne Lainson and Matthew Zischka
December 05, 2022
Smart & Biggar, Canada’s leading firm in intellectual property law, is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized as the ‘Americas Firm of the Year’ at the Women in Business Law Global ...
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